trilix

Latin

Alternative forms

• trilīcium, trānslīcium, trāslīcium, trālīcium (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

From tri- < trēs + līcium (“thread”).

Adjective

trilīx (genitive trilīcis); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. having triple thread, three-ply

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	trilīx			trilīcēs	trilīcia
genitive	trilīcis			trilīcium
dative	trilīcī			trilīcibus
accusative	trilīcem	trilīx		trilīcēs	trilīcia
ablative	trilīcī			trilīcibus
vocative	trilīx			trilīcēs	trilīcia

Descendants

• Catalan: terliç
• Old French: treslis
  • French: treillis
• Friulian: tarlîs
• Italian: traliccio
• Occitan: trelís, trelhís
• Spanish: terliz
• → Basque: terlizá
• → Old High German: drilīh
  • Middle High German: drilich
    • German: Drillich
      • → English: drill

References

• “trilix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “trilix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• trilix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.